What does it take to be a hero? To be a hero it takes courage and bravery. Dally‚Ponyboy‚ and Johnny show being a hero in so many different ways. Dally shows his through helping others through hard times. He saves his friends life from a fire. Ponyboy saves kids lives from a burning down church. Johnny saved people’s lives‚ helps his friend when he needs it the most‚ and stood up to soc’s and used self defense against them. To be a hero it takes a lot of work. First‚ Dally through his life showed
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In society‚ there is and always has been complications between Caucasians and African-Americans. In this poem‚ Sharon Olds explores this relationship using imagery‚ repetition‚ and multiple tone shifts. In the beginning of the poem‚ the author introduces a situation that contrasts a white person with a black. Correspondingly‚ she applies imagery to emphasize this difference greatly. For example‚ the shoes he is wearing at the time are black “laced with white” and compares them to “intentional scars
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Poem Analysis Digging Digging is a poem written by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. It’s about a person looking back into the past and thinking about his father and his grandfather. The memories in the poem are about his father and his grandfather’s occupation. The sentences: ‘Stooping in rhythm through potato drills.’ shows that his father was a potato farmer and ‘My grandfather cut more turf in a day’ shows that his grandfather was a turf harvester. The title of this poem also has a meaning
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Letter to Ponyboy & Johnny Write a letter to Ponyboy and Johnny. In that letter‚ discuss at least three things they did wrong‚ and what they should have done instead. Each thing they did wrong‚ plus your advice‚ needs to be its own paragraph. Ponyboy‚ and Johnny‚ Hello Ponyboy and Johnny‚ its Jackson. I just heard your story and I must say I think you guys are amazing. I thought I knew you pretty well‚ but then this story totally changed my idea of you. I think that you guys did a lot of
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“Stay gold‚ Ponyboy‚ stay gold‚” Those are the words that Johnny wrote to Ponyboy before his tragic death. Johnny wanted to let Ponyboy and his best friends know that life goes on and just because there is hardships‚ there still is happiness in the world and that the grass is always greener on the other side. I believe that if Dally had not been killed then all of the gang’s lives would go on living the motto of Johnny. Dally would be alive and still heartbroken from Johnny’s death but he would know
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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Rebekah Frost LAL 153: Online Summer 2015 Unit 14: Poetry Analysis Assignment Poetry Analysis Essay Due: 7-20-15 “Having a Mind to Change the World” By Howard Nemerov The poem is about daylight saving time. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is an age-old practice where people would advance time by one hour to extend daylight time into the night. In effect‚ they would sacrifice sunrise time‚ also by one hour. People in the regions affected would adjust their clocks around the start of spring. They would
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everyone came to know as the Man in Black (Dolan 21). The man’s real name was Johnny Cash. Releasing numerous songs‚ and winning sixteen music awards‚ Johnny Cash became one of the best country music singers known to man. “He wore a long‚ black swallow- tailed preacher’s coat over a high-collared black shirt; his pants‚ too‚ and even his boots were black.” More known for his sultry singing voice and his bad boy attitude‚ Johnny Cash rocked the music industry to its core (Dolan 35). On February 26th‚ 1932
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gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.” The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about a group of greasers from Tulsa‚ OK during the mid-1960’s who battle with rich Socs and about the main character/narrator Ponyboy growing up. One character that stands out in the story is Johnny because he greatly impacts the plot. He is a dynamic character that has an ironic change in the way he acts and is a round character who shows multiple sides of his emotions. Three characteristic traits about Johnny are nervous‚ caring
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Johnny Tremain‚ A Walt Disney Production‚ is about how a silversmith apprentice joins the Sons of Liberty after an accident. With Hal Stalmaster as Johnny Tremain‚ Johnny is a Silversmith apprentice in Boston‚ Massachusetts from a respectable British family. His mom before she dies gives Johnny a cup. This cup signified that he came from a rich British family. Johnny reveals this to his fellow co-worker‚ Cilla‚ who is astonished. Though Johnny came from a wealthy family‚ he wanted to make his own
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